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@unnumbered Preface

This reference manual documents Guile, GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent
Language for Extensions.  It describes how to use Guile in many useful
and interesting ways.

This is edition @value{MANUAL_EDITION} of the reference manual, and
corresponds to Guile version @value{VERSION}.
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@section The Guile License
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@node Guile License
@chapter The Guile License
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The license of Guile consists of the GNU GPL plus a special statement
giving blanket permission to link with non-free software.  This is the
license statement as found in any individual file that it applies to:

@quotation
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this software; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
02111-1307 USA

As a special exception, the Free Software Foundation gives permission
for additional uses of the text contained in its release of GUILE.

The exception is that, if you link the GUILE library with other files to
produce an executable, this does not by itself cause the resulting
executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License.  Your use of
that executable is in no way restricted on account of linking the GUILE
library code into it.

This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the
executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License.

This exception applies only to the code released by the Free Software
Foundation under the name GUILE.  If you copy code from other Free
Software Foundation releases into a copy of GUILE, as the General Public
License permits, the exception does not apply to the code that you add
in this way.  To avoid misleading anyone as to the status of such
modified files, you must delete this exception notice from them.

If you write modifications of your own for GUILE, it is your choice
whether to permit this exception to apply to your modifications.  If you
do not wish that, delete this exception notice.
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